Towson, MD, USA
2 cigar shaped ufos hovered for about 10-15 minutes above horizon near forest, then immediately jetted directly vertical, into the sky.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-26
- Where
- Towson, MD, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.401, -76.602 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-towson-md-2017-d8b273
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Towson, MD shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 94 reports came from Maryland in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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